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WAGON STAKE.

V Patented Feb. 1,.1887.

Fr E INVENTOR 1 WITNESSES ATTORNEYS.

NlTED STATES PATENT rrion.

JACOB H. GONOVER AND DAVID S. DRINK, OF SPRINGBOROUGH, PA.

WAGON-STAKE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 356,927, dated February 1, 1887.

Application filed October 12, 1886. Serial No. 216,027. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that we, JACOB H. CONOVER and DAYKD S. BRINK, of Springborough, in the county of Graw ford and State of Pennsyl- Vania, have invented a new and Improved Wagon-Stake, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the annexed drawings, forming a part thereof, in which Fignrel is'a side elevation of our improved Wagon-stake. Fig. 2 is an inverted plan View. Fig. 3 is a front elevation. Fig. 1 is an enlarged partial side elevation, and Fig. 5 is a side elevation of the stake-ring.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

The object of our invention is to provide a. stake for wagons, formed entirely of metal, which will be stronger, cheaper, more durable, and easier replaced in case of breaking than any other styles of stake, and one that leaves the bolster stronger and gives the wagon a better appearance.

Our invention consists in the construction and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described and claimed.

The tapering body A of the stake consists of a fiat web of iron surrounded by a flange, B, thickened at two or more points along the outer edge of the stake, and provided with holes a, for receiving the bolt or rivet by which an annular clevis is pivoted to the stake. The

flange B at the bottom of the stake is widened and prolonged beyond the outer edge of the stake, forming a foot, 0, which rests upon the bolster D of the wagon.

A steady-pin, E, projects from the foot of the stake at right angles, at a point about opposite the center of the base of the stake, and from the foot of the stake, near the inner edge thereof, a bolt, F, projects at right angles with the foot, and is provided with a nut, b, for binding the stake to the bolster.

In addition to the insertion of the steady pin E and the bolt 13 in the bolster, a bolt or screw is inserted in the hole 0 in the foot of the stake and screwed into or through the bolster.

An annular clevis, G, is pivotally secured to the stake by a bolt or rivet, d, passing through one of the holes a, as shown in Fig. 4.

Our improved stake may be made of a good quality of cast-iron, or of cast-iron malleable ized, and the steady-pin E and bolt F may be formed integrally with the stake, or they may be secured to the stake by casting the metal around them, or by threading them and screwing them into threaded holes made in the stake.

Having thus fully described our invention, we claim as new and desire to secure by Let ters Patent As an improved article of manufacture, the cast-1' ron Wagon-stake A,formed with the flange G projecting beyond the outer edge of the stakeand having a boltapc rture,c, the steadypiu E in line with the longitudinal vertical axis of the stake, and the bolt F in line with the inner vertical edge of the stake, substantially as set forth.

JACOB H. CONOVER. DAVID S. BRINK. \Vitncsscs:

L. K. CHAPMAN, R. 0. CHAPMAN, A. W. Tenn. 

